Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gimlet-eyed money-changers on Hong Kong's Connaught Road and along the nearby Macao waterfront traditionally buy-at carefully reckoned prices-even the most dubious currencies. But last week they were shaking their heads at fishermen and smugglers selling Communist China's yuan. For the yuan had dropped to an alltime low. It began its spectacular decline last year, took its biggest plunge since January, when the news of China's food shortages first leaked out. Overall, it has dropped 50% in value from a year ago; buyers can get all they want...
Throwing up his job, he went to the islands. Last week he rounded out his second year of a mission that has transformed sick and heartsick farmers and fishermen into a people with food, shelter, and hope for the future...
...Uganda, where the Nile swirls through the game preserves of Murchison National Park to Lake Albert, fishermen go for Nile perch, a predator that weighs as much as 160 Ibs. in the river and 300 lbs. in the lake. Three-day excursions can be booked with East African Airways from Entebbe to Queen Elizabeth Park (cost: $78) or Murchison Park ($86), and there is an assortment of river, rail and car trips that provide closeup views of the animals. At Murchison travelers can take the "Royal" cottages (where Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth stayed two years/ago) for $7.25; overflow...
This macabre and sordid tone prepares for the final obscenity: Dawn breaks over the Saturnalia and the revellers run down through a forest to the seashore, where fishermen have just netted an enormous, fleshy sting ray. This could have been a powerful, almost mythic ending if Fellini had not ruined it with a phony conversation between Marcello and an innocent young girl...
...that "we don't have much humor at the U.N.... but we've been having a lot more since Adlai Stevenson arrived." He recalled the Stevenson's joke, originally from a Dutch diplomat, on one of the marks of progress--"now the people in New Guinea are eating only fishermen on Fridays...